People have long flocked to Northern Ireland to search the ravish Dark Hedges , but thescenic location ’s visual aspect in time of year two ofGame of Thronesreally put the tourist attraction on the mapping . visitor who walk down the " Kingsroad " this week may notice something amiss , though . According toThe Independent , powerful winds uprooted one of Ballymoney ’s famous beech trees , which have been a prominent feature of the town since the eighteenth century .
Although it seemed tough enough , the tree diagram was apparently no mate for the 60 mph blast that swept through the region last weekend . The Dark Hedges are locate along Bregagh Road , near the entrance to theGracehill Housemansion . The original property owner , James Stuart , is reckon to have plant the hedge around 1775 . There were once 150 beech tree at the site , but only 60 to 90 trees are still stand today , according to unlike estimates . Some fell dupe to past storms , while others suffer from buncombe .
The eerily beautiful location appeared in the first instalment of the second time of year ofGame of Thrones , in which Arya Stark escapes from King ’s Landing . In the wake of the show ’s popularity , local authorities had to ordain a dealings prohibition to prevent damage to the route and to the tree ’ theme .
The trees are cause old , after all , and they could be gone in just 10 years . “ They are come to the end of their life , ” Paddy Cregg , from the Woodland Trust , tell apart theBBC . “ Normally beech Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree survive around 250 years . They are in all probability now 240 age old . ”
Put differently , the trees are in their belated mid-seventies in human years , dendrochronologist David Brown tells the BBC . So if you ’re skip to see the Kingsroad in person , you ’d well start make travel plans .
[ h / tThe Independent ]
